18 Best nonfiction books like How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History by Samantha Cole

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How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

By: Samantha Cole

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the moment there was an “online,” there was sex online. The famous test image used by software…

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Cover of Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester

1. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

By: Simon Winchester

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines … read more

Similar categories in Simon Winchester's Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke

2. Butts: A Backstory

By: Heather Radke

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more

Similar categories in Heather Radke's Butts: A Backstory book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • audiobook
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

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3. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Thornton's Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane

4. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more

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  • audiobook
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Cover of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

5. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

Similar categories in Zeke Faux's Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • technology
Cover of Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles

6. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

Similar categories in Nellie Bowles's Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

7. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • technology
Cover of The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand

8. The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

By: Louis Menand

4.23

Format: 880 pages, Hardcover

In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new int… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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9. Dear Mothman

By: Robin Gow

4.25

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Poet and author Robin Gow’s moving middle-grade novel in verse Dear Mothman is about a young trans … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

10. Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose

By: Leigh Cowart

4.09

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrice… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Cowart's Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sexuality
  • audiobook
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

11. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. The Day Tripper

By: James Goodhand

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It’s 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazi… read more

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  • audiobook
"People who pursue money are those with nothing better to pursue."

-James Goodhand, The Day Tripper

Cover of The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I by Steven Ujifusa

13. The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I

By: Steven Ujifusa

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive human drama that chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in … read more

Similar categories in Steven Ujifusa's The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

By: Samantha Cole

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the moment there was an “online,” there was sex online. The famous test image used by software… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • audiobook
  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • microhistory
  • technology
Cover of Break the Internet: in pursuit of influence by Olivia Yallop

15. Break the Internet: in pursuit of influence

By: Olivia Yallop

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Traditional media is over. The internet reigns. And in the attention economy, influencers are royal… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Yallop's Break the Internet: in pursuit of influence book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future by Esme Louise James

16. Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future

By: Esme Louise James

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories,… read more

Similar categories in Esme Louise James's Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • audiobook
Cover of Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink by Tina Horn

17. Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink

By: Tina Horn

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a #1 Apple podcast host, Lambda Literary fellow, and former dominatrix, a sex-positive, judgem… read more

Similar categories in Tina Horn's Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sexuality
  • audiobook
Cover of Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop by Martin Puchner

18. Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

By: Martin Puchner

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a break… read more

Similar categories in Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

19. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • technology
Cover of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger

20. Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

By: Kate Conger

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • technology
Cover of Plagues and Their Aftermath: How Societies Recover from Pandemics by Brian Michael Jenkins

21. Plagues and Their Aftermath: How Societies Recover from Pandemics

By: Brian Michael Jenkins

3.67

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

"Jenkins has organized his book around themes, and as he explores them, he leads the reader back an… read more

Similar categories in Brian Michael Jenkins's Plagues and Their Aftermath: How Societies Recover from Pandemics book and Samantha Cole's How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History

  • history
  • nonfiction

19 best-selling audiobook books like How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History by Samantha Cole

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Butts: A Backstory

Heather Radke

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

Sarah Thornton

3.77

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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Marisa Crane

3.93

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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

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3.99

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Brian Klaas

4.13

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Charles Duhigg

4.05

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Becca Rothfeld

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